We (Amerihub) craft custom data transit solutions and manage the networks and tech assets for a lot of medical and manufacturing clients in the Chicago area. This could have HUGE applications in those spaces.

I signed up for your beta via your site. We want in asap.

Anything similar going on in Europe? London specifically? I would love to create some pocketable hardware that never needs recharging and sends text and (compact) vector-based graphical market updates to people.

Yes, on the Continent, at least! I'm not sure about the UK.

Both LoRa and Sigfox came out of French companies, and several wireless carriers have announced plans to build networks. Also check out The Things Network guys in Amsterdam who are trying to crowdsource a network, very cool stuff.

Sigfox is being used in the roll out of smart gas/electricity meters in the north of England/Scotland. Unfortunately Telefonica won the south any they will use the GSM network.

How will you deal with device contention as the density of devices increases?

Check out my response to your other comment.

What tech are you using for the base station?

I'd love to put one in our hackerspace out here :) -- a few offices of people working on IoT would probably think that was pretty cool.

Killer -- where's your hackerspace?

LoRa basestation gateways are available off-the-shelf for from Kerlink, Multitech, and Link Labs. The gateways are actually quite simple, they just forward packets to the cloud network server, and back to the clients.

Hey, is there any chance for us putting something like this to the Taipei Hackerspace (Taiwan)? https://taipeihack.org

I've been checking LoRa for months to do some projects, but all got to some bottlenecks. (E.g. here are some notes on a USB-stick LoRa communicator plans: https://hackpad.com/LoRa-USB-Communication-Stick-xKGgChuwbzL )

Mesa, AZ.

http://www.heatsynclabs.org/

nice, hit me up, daniel@

Can I run my own server?

+1 Bangalore, India.